β Scribed by Kaye Gibbons
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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Paperback, 144 pages
Published 1987
Algonquin Books (2012)
Includes an essay by the author "How I Became a Writer"
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy." With that opening sentence we enter the childhood world of one of the most appealing young heroines in contemporary fiction. Her courage, her humor, and her wisdom are unforgettable as she tells her own story with stunning honesty and insight.
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism.
"The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!"βEudora Welty;
"A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel."βWalker Percy.
"Filled with lively humor, compassion, and intimacy."βAlice Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review
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